With an insatiable curiosity and unstoppable drive, Robert Vosmeijer, better known as De Sluwe Vos, has been a pioneering force within the Dutch electronic music scene for over a decade. Known for his raw energy, relentless urge to innovate and independent vision, he moves effortlessly between house, techno and hip-hop. In doing so, he breaks musical conventions and shapes a distinctive, dynamic sound that is constantly evolving.

10 SHOWS, 10 CITIES
With the 10x10 Tour, he made a statement in 2024 and 2025: club culture must remain accessible. Ten shows, ten cities, ten euros, a concept that redefined the essence of nightlife and guided a new generation back to the dance floor.

FROM GLASTONBURY TO LOWLANDS
His track selection and lightning-fast mixing skills set every dance floor ablaze. But live, De Sluwe Vos pushes boundaries even further. His Kontra live show, featuring a full band and guest artists, merges electronic music and live performance into a hybrid experience. This approach garnered international attention and took him to stages such as Glastonbury, Lowlands, Pukkelpop and Awakenings.

STUDIO WORK
He continues to push limits in the studio as well: in 2025 he released Repeat with Dutch hip-hop legends Rico and Willie Wartaal, and earlier collaborated with artists including Sticks, Mula B and Lucky Fonz III, partnerships that underline his role as a connector of genres and generations. In 2024, De Sluwe Vos released his third studio album Now I Understand, on Carl Cox’s label, a milestone that expanded his sound to a broader international audience.

BUILDING BRIDGES
When he’s not digging for rare old-school gems, Vosmeijer can be found in his hardware-filled studio working on new projects and aliases (Such as Intercity 106 with fellow synth-nerd Sjamsoedin). In short: De Sluwe Vos is more than a DJ or producer; he is building bridges between genres and generations and is a driving force behind the ongoing evolution of Dutch electronic music.

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For Rune Reilly Kölsch, Kompakt has become a great label to call home. In 2013 the German imprint celebrated 20 years of record releases at the cutting edge of electronic music, championed in June by one of the most genre re-defining albums and personal music projects for an era: Kölsch’s landmark long player, ‘1977’.

A melodic autobiography on black wax, the Kölsch project has seen 36/37-year-old Rune take stock of a diverse and successful production career and draw upon his own personal beginnings: a nostalgia for childhood, family, friends and the confusion of applying his split-cultural heritage to what it means to think of ‘home’. As Rune freely admits, “being half Irish, half German and living in Denmark – it was all one big messy period of my life.” 

Born to hippie parents in the freetown of Christiania (a commune-like autonomous borough of the Danish capital Copenhagen) his childhood was spent surrounded by creativity. His mother was an artist whose family had roots in German politics and his father a singer songwriter who travelled through Asia playing music in the early 70's. Kölsch, however, did miss out on building friendships and found solace in making up “this imaginary world that I would spend days in,” before the family moved to Germany – a period of memories, relations and characters from which ‘1977’ derives its titles.

For Rune, the tracks he began building from 2010 took in this personal reflection, his being “completely locked in to reminiscing about what shaped me as a kid and into the individual that I am now” – contemplating his unique past to form the brickwork of ‘1977’, one of the most future-facing techno albums of recent years.

Influenced by hip hop, pop and the incredible legacy of Jeff Mills and Derrick May, Rune started producing in 1995, embarking on a string of success stories. In 2003 he released the multi-million selling, saxophone-infused ‘Calabria’, that saw collaboration requests pouring in from artists as diverse as Nicki Minaj, Shakira and Flo Rida. He then set up Tattoorecs – releasing pioneering underground tracks with no titles, just tattoos for artwork, that garnered critical acclaim and support from minimal and techno trailblazers such as Sven Väth, Richie Hawtin, Magda, Tiefschwarz and Ricardo Villalobos.

This appreciation of the complete musical spectrum has gifted Rune with a devotion to groove and melodics and with it the dexterity to input real creative change to the genres he reveres, not least his beloved techno. “2010 was the year of the ketamine house wave, where the music was 118 bpm and everything was extremely boring”, reflects Rune. “I wanted some melodic techno, some energy back in this scene. People needed the energy to express themselves and go crazy for a bit.”

This notion faced opposition, even from within Rune’s close circles. But it was Kompakt founder Michael Mayer who had the insight to see what Kölsch was trying to achieve. Rune’s conviction that vibrations and melodics are the key to human response had tipped the balance, underlined by his experience as a hip hop DJ where he “needed something to catch me and drag me in. And that’s what techno should do!” Here too he drew on his love of Jeff Mills and Derrick May, recalling how “they used to make mistakes all the time. It would be a big mash of all kinds of stuff, but at least something was happening. That’s what I was missing and that’s what I’m trying to change with the Kölsch project.”

The result is ‘1977’, a personal collection of dancefloor destroyers that are continuing to send clubs and festivals across the globe into melodic supernova. Take this video of Kölsch’s set at Belgium’s I Love Techno festival, one of Rune’s 2013 highlights, where “people were doing sit downs, singing along to all the tracks”. Watch it. It puts the hairs up on the back of your neck. “The response was overwhelming,” said Rune in a recent interview with Mixmag (who named Kölsch as one of their ‘Stars Of 2013’), as “when you think about it, it was just a bunch of childhood memories with a kickdrum underneath.” 

Elsewhere he’s ripped up the airways with an acclaimed Essential Mix for Pete Tong on BBC Radio 1, delivered his incendiary soundscape to Singapore’s world-renowned ZoukOut Festival, boomed his live show through the heaving basement of London’s XOYO and played the hallowed Space Terrace – in his words “a boyhood dream since I started going to Ibiza in 1999. That was what I wanted from life!” So opening Amnesia in 2014 with Joris Voorn will be a bonus then...

While these are reasons enough to keep the beaming smile beneath Kölsch’s trademark black fedora, his humility remains just as striking. While tracks like ‘Goldfisch’ have taken pivotal positions in the set lists of world class DJs from across the dance music spectrum – traversing the underground with Seth Troxler, while simultaneously providing credible new euphoric highs for the likes of Axwell – Rune remains joyously down to earth. All despite producing, with ‘1977’, an album that has crossed as many cultural and musical boundaries as his own childhood past.

From the face-twisting melodic drive of ‘Opa’ and ‘Bappedekkel’, to the chord-surfing piano groove of ‘Der Alte’ and the euphoric crescendos of ‘Lorely’, ‘Oma’ and ‘All That Matters’ (all hits in different countries), the fact remains that whether in your living room, on the dancefloors of the world’s greatest parties, or simply in your headphones on your way home, Kölsch’s ‘1977’ has re-defined techno and become an achievement that speaks for itself. 

Words: Phil Dudman – Clubs & Live Music Editor, Mixmag


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Author, composer, performer and conductor of his own orchestra, Worakls is a modern artist.
Although trained in classical music, he quickly gained recognition through his fusion of classical music and electronic tones thanks to which he meets his first successes as an artist, but also as the founder of the labels Hungry Music and Sonate Records. 

Worakls brings a unique and modern sound signature to his music by mixing in his influences (mainly classical, rock and electro). Powerful orchestrations, stirring melodies and dreamy sounds are distinctive features of Worakls’ music. On stage, he conducts his own orchestra, the “Worakls Orchestra” with which he plays his music in the biggest venues in Europe for a show that’s as beautiful to see as it is to hear.

CONTACT: shapesaremoving@gmail.com

 Shapes is a Dutch producers/DJ’ , based in Utrecht, The Netherlands. 

Hardly instant best mates when they met each other for the first time at a local rave. They actually pretty much hated each other, but their paths kept crossing and the two soon got into a conversation about the sloppy tunes the DJ was playing at a party. They realized they had much more common than first anticipated, namely 80s pop and 90s rave sound.
And since their ideas about how quality electronic music should sound were so harmonious, the two decided to put their efforts together to see where it led. Shapes has been shaped. 

The duo were curators/residents for one of the most forward thinking club nights in Utrecht at EKKO; Bright

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